Comment by Ajedi32
6 days ago
That's a good idea in spirit but seems a little over complicated to me. I think it might be simpler to just categorically ban any and all technical measures designed to prevent users from controlling or modifying software on devices that they own. Distributing binary code without the source and build tools would count as such a technical measure. This would be an even more radical change in many respects, but also a lot simpler and more principled.
Curious to hear if there are any unintended consequences to this that I may not have thought of. Think of this as a strawman proposal.
> ban [...] technical measures designed to prevent users from controlling or modifying software on devices that they own
Is this legal ownership or technical 0wnership?
You'd need to define "technical measure", or you'd have endless litigation to do it in courts. Trying to define that reasonably precisely is how I came up with my proposal.